We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It is a safe product."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"I don't have anything bad to say about the product. I absolutely love it."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability, ease of implementation, ease of operation, and security."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering."
"The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"It's a complicated firewall. Until you come to know the firewall inducers, most people don't like the firewall because the components for the firewall are a little bit complex. User-friendliness is a little bit tough. It needs to be user-friendly when creating policies, and pushing policies. Committing takes more time compared to Palo Alto."
"Management could be better. They can improve the management. I think all our customers can't accept firewalls that have standalone management. So, they prefer Fortinet or Palo Alto. But overall, inspection and other features are working fine."
"The solution needs to add an antivirus profile and anti-spyware profile, not just policies and VPN."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"The solution's support could use improvement."
"Its management center should be easier to use. The management interface of Forcepoint is unique and a little bit different from some of the firewall solutions on which people might have worked before. Sometimes, the customers say that it is not very friendly, and we help them with how to use this management interface. It just takes a little bit of time, and after some time, it gets easy to manage or use. It is quite similar to Palo Alto, Fortinet, and legacy Juniper solutions. Their support should be faster. We have received complaints that they are not responding fast, which is not good for the vendor and us."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"Configuration is not easy because it has an old-fashioned interface. The configuration interface is highly complex, and it's been the same for years. They have to change the interface."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"We feel that the setup was complex. So, we asked the tech team about the setup process. They explained how to deploy it in the right way, which made it very simple."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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